The National Supercomputing Center, Wuxi（NSCC-Wuxi），coordinated and cooperated by Jiangsu Province, the city of Wuxi and Tsinghua University, hosts the new generation of Sunway TaihuLight Supercomputer.

NSCCWX News

On April
27th, 2017, the high-tech center of MOST(Ministry of Science and Technology)
organized the site acceptance test for the "Sunway TaihuLight"
supercomputer system project in Wuxi. After strict inspections and
examinations, the experts groups were in complete agreement that the
"Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer passed the acceptance check.

The
"Sunway TaihuLight" supercomputer is the project which is supported
by the majorinformation
technology projects of the State 863 Planning. In Jun of 2016, the
official system was released. The "Sunway TaihuLight“ won the first
place twice among the TOP500 Supercomputers on the TOP500 List Published at ISC
High Performance in June and November of 2016. It is the first supercomputer in
the whole world which is able to perform over a billion number of operations
and it is completely built using domestic high-performancemany-core processors. Its technical indicators
like performance of peak processing, duration performance and system energy
efficiency are far ahead, which indicates that China has achieved a breakthrough
on aspects of supercomputers like autonomous and controllable, peek value speed,
duration performance, green technology index and so on.

After the “Sunway
TaihuLight” supercomputer came into service, 134 research institutions like Tsinghua
University, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences, First Institute
of Oceanography of National Bureau of Oceanography, China Shipbuilding Industry
Corporation No.702 Research and Development Institute have been relied on this
platform and developed a series of different high-performance application
projects in areas like space flight and aviation, weather and climate,
biological information, material science, ship engineering, computational
chemistry and so on. 18 of these projects achieved the massively parallel
computing from 5 million-core to tens of million-core and achieved important
application results.

The application
of “full-implicit simulation on ten million-core scalable global atmospheric dynamics”
based on the “Sunway TaihuLight” was awarded the ACM Gordon Bel prize in 2016. Wining
this award indicates that China had achieved the breakthrough of winning the
highest award in the area of word’s high performance computing.